Deliveryzação do território? difusão e práticas espaciais dos trabalhadores de delivery no espaço metropolitano de Belém

Abstract

The thesis aims to analyze the process of uberized work in the metropolitan space of Belém from the years 2000, seeking to reflect on transformations in the context of the world of work in the space-time dimension, where both the city and its social dynamics, spatial processes and realizations of the territory through its use, jointly and through inseparable affections, established interpositions to the advent of the capitalist mode of production, which enabled tessituras that externalized the metropolitan space, a space that has come to form complex relationships with its most hegemonic and subordinating phase in terms of exploitation (neoliberalism and globalization), as well as its consolidation and expansion, which vilifies social rights and guarantees, which have become externalized in spatial processes, through vectors where the features of center and centrality are realized through more precarious forms of work, which are processed in and through spatial processes, materialized in the derealization of work. We defend the thesis that the new condition of the urbanized work of delivery drivers in the metropolitan area of Belém, as an expression of the new nexuses of neoliberal globalization, marked by the intense precariousness of the workforce, has contributed to the deepening of differentiations and socio-spatial inequalities and to the process of subsumption and deprivation of workers' basic social rights, constituting a denial of the right to decent work and the exercise of their citizenship. The research carried out here involved a bibliographical survey and analysis, a documentary survey and analysis, the application of forms, systematic qualitative observations, cartographic production, photographic records and semi-structured interviews with delivery workers. The relevance of the thesis is related to the need to highlight the new conditions of uberized work in the metropolitan area of Belém in the second decade of the 21st century, given the process of metropolization, urban restructuring and the city, and its expressions in urban landscapes, in the conditions of social exclusion, unemployment, precariousness and informality, as well as its inherent consequences for the exploitation of work in a world marked by the strengthening of neoliberalism and intense fragmented globalization